Christopher Williams reports: Hackers bombarded Carphone Warehouse with online traffic as a smokescreen while they stole the personal and banking details of 2.4 million people, according to sources with knowledge of the incident. The retailer revealed at the weekend that its security had been breached in a “sophisticated” attack. It is now thought that criminals used a…
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China has been reading emails of top U.S. govt officials since 2010
Robert Windrem reports: China’s cyber spies have accessed the private emails of “many” top Obama administration officials, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official and a top secret document obtained by NBC News, and have been doing so since at least April 2010. The email grab — first codenamed “Dancing Panda” by U.S. officials, and then…
OH: Restaurant website hacked by apparent ISIS supporters
Rebecca Butts and Keith BieryGolick report: A Middletown restaurant appeared to have been hacked by a group claiming to support the Islamic State on Sunday. The hack appears to be the work of Team System Dz. The message displayed on the Canal House Bar and Grille‘s website is similar to what hackers put on the…
Facebook hacker arrested in Bangladesh
Here’s a recent news item I missed from Bangladesh: The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a hacker, who has so far hacked 100 Facebook accounts especially of female users to blackmail them, in the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday. Mahmudul Hasan, 20, a fourth semester computer science and technology student of East-West University, hacked FB…
Watchdog accuses OPM of hindering hack investigation
Fox News reports: The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general is accusing a senior agency official of hindering their investigation into the massive breach of security clearance and personal information for millions of federal employees. Inspector General Patrick McFarland claimed that OPM Chief Information Officer Donna Seymour slowed his investigation into the breach, and that…
Carphone Warehouse coughs to MEGA data breach hitting up to 2.4 MEELLION customers (Update2)
Kelly Fiveash reports: Carphone Warehouse has taken three days to go public about a serious data breach affecting nearly 2.5 million customers – with the confession that up to 90,000 subscribers may have had their credit card info ransacked. The company said in a statement on Saturday afternoon that it had first discovered its systems…